Washington – Stalin Killed More Ukrainians Than Hitler Killed Jews, Says Congressman

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    FILE - Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee during a hearing in Washington, U.S., May 25, 2016. REUTERS/Joshua RobertsWashington – An American lawmaker appeared to minimize the Holocaust this week, comparing it to a man-made famine that decimated Soviet Ukraine in the early 1930s.

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    Speaking at a conference organized by the conservative American Enterprise Institute, House Homeland Security Committee chairman Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) stated that “Stalin killed more people in Ukraine than Hitler killed Jews in World War II. They basically worked them to death for the bread and the food that they made in Ukraine.”

    Known as the Holodomor, the massive famine which lasted from 1932-33 was brought on by Stalinist collectivization policies. During the famine, Moscow insisted on increasing production quotas and confiscating seed grain while peasants starved.

    While it affected citizens across the the Soviet Union, Ukraine was hit especially hard. While millions starved to death, the exact tally of victims has been a matter of dispute. Some scholars, such as Ukrainian-Canadian historian John-Paul Himka, have placed the number at around four million while Ukrainian nationalists claim more than twice as many.

    This nationalist historiography began to take off in Ukraine during the early 2000s when then-President Viktor Yushchenko began a campaign of public commemoration, claiming that the famine had been a “genocide that had wiped out more than 10,000,000 victims.”

    Speaking at a memorial ceremony last year, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko claimed that 7 to 10 million Ukrainians had died and asserted that “not recognizing the Holodomor is as immoral as denying the Holocaust.”

    Nationalist discourse related to the Holodomor is often combined with anti-Semitic sentiments in what some critics have described as a competition for victimhood. In 2009, Ukraine’s security service released a document naming those who it alleged to have been responsible for the Holodomor. Most of the names on the list were Jewish.


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    triumphinwhitehouse
    triumphinwhitehouse
    5 years ago

    can you imagine what the Jews would endure during the Holocaust if even more of these anti-Semites were around? The Ukrainians were the SS special forces their specialities included literally tearing apart ALIVE Jewish babies in front of their mothers, cutting open pregnant Jewish women, raping Jewish girls before the age of puberty in front of family and even MORE violent things. I know liberals will say fake news because liberals don’t want to hear that which isn’t convenient so that’s why Arabs and blacks are always the victims.

    misslydia128
    misslydia128
    5 years ago

    He is right. Stalin and Hitler are on par with each other in criminality, just with different methods and goals.

    ayinglefunadorf
    ayinglefunadorf
    5 years ago

    Just another Republican Antisemite. They were elected by Neo-Nazis. They only represent their constituents.

    5 years ago

    Historically correct
    Unfortunately there were many Jewish rotzchim communists the most notorious was Kaganovich.He was one of the only high level henchmen to survive Stalin yms purges. He was very active in the starvation of ukrain. Although the Ukrainians had many many anti semites this doesn’t condone rezicha.yes millions died the precise number isn’t known. Unfortunately many Jews probably perished with the populace.! Poland was extremely anti Semitic
    Just to note I was once walking with Rav Shmurel Berenbaum zl chol hamoed sucos in Chicago where he would visit in a park.A polish goy said good day to the rosh yeshiva
    Rav Shmuel who spoke polish answered back in polish. When he passed the rosh yeshiva said to me they were the biggest sonei yisroel

    5 years ago

    He might be factually right as Stalin killed millions. But its despicable to draw comparisons being that it unfortunately minimizes the atrocities of the holocaust. Comparing is bad. Both are atrocities but that doesn’t minimize this.

    PaulinSaudi
    PaulinSaudi
    5 years ago

    I did not know it was a contest.

    elyeh
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    elyeh
    5 years ago

    Both Stalin and Hitler, yemach shemom, hated Yiddin.

    And Stalin hated many other groups and would kill large groups with impunity, as he did with Ukranians, with Tatars and others. Stalin, and even Hitler, would use Yiddin when it served their purposes, but it was a temporary use.

    The Communists especially would use those whose family were Jewish to help find and oppress the Jewish community in special ways, since they knew more about the community. Even at the end of his life, when he was sick and dying, Stalin was killing his Jewish doctors and getting ready to have major pogroms against all sorts of Jews who he had brought into governmental institutions and academia in the USSR.

    5 years ago

    Stalin, ym”s, was only second to China’s Mao in the mass murdering dept. And Hitler, ym”s, was a close third. May they all rot in gehinom!

    5 years ago

    #1 is correct; the Ukrainian thugs, after raping Jewish girls, would a sharp stake, and shove it into their private areas, torturing them, until they bled to death; the Ukrainians were worst sadists, and perverted animals, that were the German Nazis. Hence, I have ZERO sympathy for the complaints of the Ukrainian people, regarding Putin. In fact, if Putin wants to take over the Ukraine, it would be fine with me. Incidentally, if one visits Babi Yar today, (a Ukrainian site, where there was a massacre of many thousands of Jews during the Holocaust), Jews are not given a warm welcome there, and are looked at as if to say “We thought that we got rid of all of you”.